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How browsers really load web pages [video]

fosdem.org
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Five Kinds of Nondeterminism

buttondown.com
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Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models

modal.run
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Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco

vincentwoo.com
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Amazon remembers it has an Android app store, kills it

arstechnica.com

As a result of its loss in that case, Google may be forced to open Android...
As a result of its loss in that case, Google may be forced to open Android up to third-party app stores by sharing the Google Play app catalog and distributing other stores. That will give a boost to platforms like Epic Games and Microsoft. Amazon could have benefitted as well, at least in theory. The company's deci...
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Show HN: Agriquery – helping people sell their food

agriquery.com
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Running Pong in 240 browser tabs

eieio.games
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Helpcare AI (YC F24) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineer

ycombinator.com
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My Open Letter to Elon Musk

democracydocket.com

Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He...
Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. Mr. Musk, You recently criticized me and another prominent lawyer fighting fo...
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Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP

arstechnica.com

In a remarkable statement Thursday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the International Space Station should be...
In a remarkable statement Thursday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the International Space Station should be deorbited "as soon as possible." This comment from Musk will surely set off a landmine in the global space community, with broad implications. And it appears to be no idle comment from Musk who, at times, indu...
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Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't find $100K

matrix.org

After a successful 2024 with a lot to be proud of, and a Matrix Conference that...
After a successful 2024 with a lot to be proud of, and a Matrix Conference that brought our community together to celebrate 10 years of Matrix, we step into 2025 with a light budget and a mighty team poised to make the most of it! Our priorities remain to make Matrix a safer network, keep growing the ecosystem, make...
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Lifestyle and environmental factors affect health and ageing more than our genes

ox.ac.uk

The researchers used data from nearly half a million UK Biobank participants to assess the influence...
The researchers used data from nearly half a million UK Biobank participants to assess the influence of 164 environmental factors and genetic risk scores for 22 major diseases on ageing, age-related diseases, and premature death. The study is published in Nature Medicine.Key findings:environmental factors explained ...
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Why LLMs Don't Ask for Calculators?

mindprison.cc

Notes From the Desk are periodic informal posts that summarize recent topics of interest or other...
Notes From the Desk are periodic informal posts that summarize recent topics of interest or other brief notable commentary.Why LLMs Don’t Ask For CalculatorsA simple observation of LLM behavior can tell us much more than might be apparent at first. Why don’t LLMs ask for calculators for work they cannot do? The answ...
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Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber (2015)

theguardian.com

At the start of this unusual and interesting book, which is subtitled “On Technology, Stupidity, and...
At the start of this unusual and interesting book, which is subtitled “On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy”, David Graeber states what he calls the iron law of liberalism: any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimat...
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Asian teen rejected by 16 colleges hired by Google, files discrimination lawsuit

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Stanley Zhong and his father filed a lawsuit, alleging the University of California engages in racial...
Stanley Zhong and his father filed a lawsuit, alleging the University of California engages in racial discrimination in its admissions process.SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The father of a Palo Alto teen who garnered national attention for getting rejected by 16 colleges and hired by Google as a software engineer has filed...

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New Horizons for Julia

lwn.net
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Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from ancient Red Planet lake

space.com

NASA's Curiosity rover imaged these ripples on the edge of a (now dry) Martian lake bed...
NASA's Curiosity rover imaged these ripples on the edge of a (now dry) Martian lake bed on Sol 3642 (Nov. 4, 2022). (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Today, we know of Mars as a cold, dry desert, with patches of subterranean ice and ice caps at its poles. Billions of years ago, however, liquid water flowed freel...
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A fiscal crisis is looming for many US cities

theconversation.com

Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. cities are still adjusting to...
Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. cities are still adjusting to a new normal, with more people working remotely and less economic activity in city centers. Other factors, such as underfunded pension plans for municipal employees, are pushing many city budgets into the red. Urban fiscal s...

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Show HN: EVMole for Analysing EVM Bytecode

evmole.xyz
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A.I. Is Prompting an Evolution, Not Extinction, for Coders

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A.I. tools from Microsoft and other companies are helping write code, placing software engineers at the forefront of the technology’s potential to disrupt the...

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Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)

popzazzle.blogspot.com

"If you don't perceive using the Internet in the 2020s to be a constant fight, you...
"If you don't perceive using the Internet in the 2020s to be a constant fight, you have absolutely no online privacy whatsoever." Lynx browser, browsing the post Cyber Freedom: No Gain Without Pain, from my Neocities site Backlit. It might look scarily primitive at first glance, but Lynx browser - a product as old a...
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You can't build a moat with AI

substack.com

Last spring, we wrote an article called You can’t build a moat with AI. That post...
Last spring, we wrote an article called You can’t build a moat with AI. That post argued that prompt engineering, while important, would be difficult to defend over time given how easy it is to experiment with LLMs. As a result, you have to focus on the quality of data your application has access to and your use of ...
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OpenEuroLLM

openeurollm.eu
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AWS S3 SDK breaks its compatible services

xuanwo.io

The Apache Iceberg community has raised a PR S3: Disable strong integrity checksums to disable the...
The Apache Iceberg community has raised a PR S3: Disable strong integrity checksums to disable the newly introduced integrity checksums in AWS S3 SDKs.AWS has introduced default data integrity protections for new objects in Amazon S3, which is a positive development. However, they have also chosen to update the defa...

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